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• Modify the script for multiple virtual machines

  I'm working on the powercli user to change the CPU and the memory of several virtual machines.

  I found the perfect scenario created: http://ict-freak.nl/2010/05/07/powercli-script-to-schedule-memory-and-or-vcpu-updowngrade/comment-page-1/#comment-20336

  But it's only for 1 VM.

  Can someone tell me to change so do several virtual machines.  A text file would be ideal, but I'm ready for anything as this point, nothing I try does not work.

  Thank you.

  You could do

  foreach ($vm in Get-VM-name (Get-Content:\Powercli_scripts\servers.txt))

  I don't know why it's poweroffs randomly.

  You can add the - WhatIf parameter on this line, like that it will only say what he does, without actually running the cmdlet.

• Performance of the queries of multiple virtual machines in a single call

  Hi all

  I'm a little rusty on what I used to do that, but that was almost a year ago...

  I'm trying to retrieve the performance data for several virtual machines.

  For now, I have this in serial mode, i.e. running QueryPerf on each virtual machine.

  The problem is that I have about 800 of them connected to one of my VC. Needless to say, this take a LOT of time to review all of the VM.

  Y at - it sort of method that will allow me to provide a picture of VM and application (performance counters) on all virtual machines, I guess that this will be faster than going and one by one.

  Thanks in advance!

  Hello

  QueryPerf method accepts an array of data object PerfQuerySpec. Here, each PerfQuerySpec object points to a managed entity for which the statistics are to recover.

  So in your scenario, before calling queryPerf, you can create PerfQuerySpec for each virtual machine, assign to each of them in PerfQuerySpec table. You can then pass this [of PerfQuerySpec] the call of queryPerf to retrieve statistics for all virtual machines.

  Hope that the information above solves your query.

  -Neha

• Multiple virtual machines can share a common hard

  I just confirmed that multiple virtual machines can share a hard if they all see it as non-permanent, which is great if you want to experiment with different linux packages at the same time.

  Except the hard. REDO_ * files that are produced by a virtual machine are removed when you turn it off, and all the work is lost.

  Any ideas how I could prevent the hard. REDO_ * files deleted?

  the non-persistent flag is to capture instant temporary vmdk is ignored when the virtual machine is turned off.

  The vmdk. REDO_ file is actually a type of snapshot. If you want to avoid that it gets deleted turned off the power, you must use a regular snapshot - but then your sharing of this vmdk with other virtual machines will no longer work.

  For your scenario of I don't know one solution stable AND well other than the use of network shares.

  There is a hack to really share VMDK between two virtual machines, but is more stable.

  Another solution may be that share this drive via iSCSI acrooss your machines virtual more.

  Some time ago I tried to interrupt the process of vmware-vmx.exe seconds before turning off the virtual machine and then copy the REDO far so that I can use it again... but if I remember right the next time that you start the virtual computer will be created a new REDO log and it is so pretty useless :-(

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• GUI: how to run the same command on multiple virtual machines at the same time?

  Hello

  Suppose we have several operations on multiple virtual machines (for example as updated virtual hardware, install vmtools - but it could be something else of course...).

  I would avoid clicking on each virtual machine (especially when we have hundreds of different groups).  It is possible to select sort

  (they are not side by side) and perform on a particular operation on all selected both?

  Hello

  If you use vCenter 5.1 + you can also try to use marking and assign tags on the items in the inventory.

  VSphere 5.5 Documentation Center - apply a label to an object

  

  Search for items by this tag.

  If you want to use PowerCLI 5.5, you can also search the inventory by this tag.

  Get-VM-Tag which lists all the virtual machines with which

  Here are some links for getting started with vSphere PowerCLI

  Back to Basics: part 1 - installation PowerCLI | VMware PowerCLI Blog - Articles from VMware

  vSphere PowerCLI Documentation

• Script to create multiple virtual machines model works is not for the network adapter variable

  We are working on a script to create multiple virtual machines from a template. The script works fine, but when we try to include commands to set the NIC to a group of specific ports on a dvswitch script errors on. Here's what we have so far. This script (less network variables) works, but we would like to include the network configs in the script as well.

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  This is the part of the script that configures the network/dvswitch adapter... but does not work properly.

  $myResourcePool = get-ResourcePool-name DQOL

  $dsName = get-Datastore-name "DQOL-DS01.

  $myTemplate = get-Template-name "DQVTemplate".

  $distributedSwitchPortGroup = get-VirtualSwitch-distributed - name "CVE-dvS04-Nexus - k 5 | Get-VirtualPortGroup-name '979-DQ-SHARED '.

  New-VM-name MyVM1-model $myTemplate - Networkname ResourcePool - $myResourcePool - OSCustomizationSpec $mySpecification $distributedSwitchPortGroup - Datastore

  (Get-$dsName data store)

  New-VM-name MyVM2-model $myTemplate - ResourcePool $myResourcePool - OSCustomizationSpec $mySpecification - Datastore (Get-$dsName data store)

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  !!!!!!!  This part works, but without specifying a network/dvswitch... card!

  $myResourcePool = get-ResourcePool-name DQOL

  $dsName = get-Datastore-name "CVE-SAN-ISG-DS02-02ef.

  $myTemplate = get-Template-name "DQVTemplate".

  New-VM-name MyVM3-model $myTemplate - ResourcePool $myResourcePool - OSCustomizationSpec $mySpecification - Datastore (Get-$dsName data store)

  New-VM-name MyVM4-model $myTemplate - ResourcePool $myResourcePool - OSCustomizationSpec $mySpecification - Datastore (Get-$dsName data store)

  Here is the error we get:

  New-VM: all parameters can be resolved by using the specified named parameters.

  C:\Users\capuanoj\Desktop\Create-multiplevms-fromtemplate.ps1:6 char: 7

  + New-VM < < < <-name MyVM1-model $myTemplate - Networkname $distributedSwitchPortGroup - ResourcePool

  ePool - OSCustomizationSpec $mySpecification - Datastore (Get-$dsName data store)

  + CategoryInfo: InvalidArgument: (:)) [new-VM], ParameterBindingException)

  + FullyQualifiedErrorId: AmbiguousParameterSet, VMware.VimAutomation.ViCore.Cmdlets.Commands.NewVM

  You cannot use the - model and Networkname - parameters of the cmdlet New - VM in a single order, because both are in different parameter sets. You must first create the virtual machine and then use the cmdlet Set-NetworkAdapter to change the portgroup of the virtual machine. As in example 4, assistance from cmdlet Set-NIC:

  --------------  Example 4 --------------

  C:\PS>$myNetworkAdapters = Get - VM | Get-NetworkAdapter-name "NIC 1.
  $myVDPortGroup = get-VDPortgroup-name MyVDPortGroup
  Together-NetworkAdapter NetworkAdapter - $myNetworkAdapters - $myVDPortGroup Portgroup

  Retrieves all network named "NIC 1" cards of all virtual machines and connects to the specified distributed port group.

• What is the advantage to affect multiple virtual machines in a data store?

  Hello

  Quite a question stupid and basic, but I can't answer . What is the advantage of having multiple virtual machines in a store of VMFS data instead of having each VM in another VMFS data store? (eg. 3 VMs in 1 data store or 3 data warehouses and each virtual machine in one of them). I can only think about the ease of management for storage administrator because it creates only a single large LUN.
  
  Thank you

  By allowing multiple virtual machines in a data store, you can run more than 256 virtual machines in a DRS cluster.

  As a host has a limit of 256 scsi identification numbers, which means that it accesses no more than 255 LUNS shared. 1 scsi ID is used for local storage.

  In a DRS cluster as each host must be mapped to the same data warehouses to ensure that virtual machines can be moved on the cluster and run on any of the hosts.

  Now in my life as an architect VMware PSO I saw that a lot of virtual machines that require a single data store. The main reason to isolate a virtual machine on a data store must provide sufficient i/o performance. This can be achieved with other solutions than to isolate a virtual machine on a data store. Having a properly architected storage subsystem is crucial, vSphere can get out of a very large number of the IOPS / s. With technologies such as SIOC and DRS for storage, you can check that the virtual machines receive IO performance according to the needs.

• Cannot start multiple virtual machines.  Maybe I corrupted the model

  We had problems with disk space, and I was looking around to see if he had left garbage data store.  I am very new to VM, but even though I'm new I'm responsible for helping maintain.  So I learn a lesson the hard way.

  I found a number of virtual machines in organized which did not seem to relate to existing models.  For example, we have a model name 000729-Server2008 Server 2008, that they are in lm401\729.  But it appers to be a clone of 729 to lm401\16.  I'm going to guess that 16 was the original version and changes or clones have been made for him and we are now sitting to 729.

  Then I moved 16 in another data store, but it failed because there is a lock on the hard master.  So I moved everything back.  Now, when we try to start up of VMs driven from this model we get "file & lt; filename not specified & gt; not found"I went back and tried to deploy and supply on the model but I get

  Impossible to deploy virtual machines in the pool of resources 'resgroup-131.

  • Not to feed one or more virtual machines.

  • Error when powering on a virtual machine '2008 X 86'.

  • Cannot power on the operation on a virtual machine
    carried out because one of the files is locked. Consolidation of the
    virtual machine can solve this problem.

  • The operation cannot be performed because a file is locked.

  So I cancelled and tried to consolidate while I get

  Host '172.31.7.111' reported an error. A disk error has occurred: the parent of this virtual disk could not be opened. Host '172.31.7.111' reported an error. A disk error has occurred: the parent of this virtual disk could not be opened.

  Can someone help me?

  This article may help: http://www.vmware.com/kb/1007969

  If you have found this helpful at all prices please points using the correct or useful!  Thank you!

• Sharing the drive between several virtual machines

  Hi all

  We have a configuration with a SAN (Dell Compellent) and use vSphere 6 to host a number of Windows servers. We now have a giant machine of Windows with a large number of small files for a particular application.

  Now, we would like to create a cluster with a LoadBalancer in front of him, so that we can handle more load. To do this, we want to create a disk that is shared between 2 (or more) of windows machines.

  One of the problems is that NTFS is not a supported clustered file system. So, I did a lot of research on Google to see what my options are. In my opinion, they are the following:

  1. set up a Cluster Shared Volume (CSV) Microsoft (use SMB if I read the documentation)

  2. the user Windows shares on a separate file server

  3. the user NFS (depreacted under Windows)

  4. switch to Linux and use NFS

  The problem I have, is that they use all the network traffic. For example, option 2 is ridiculous slow. NFS under Linux is also a way slower than the local drive (managed by VMWare iSCSI) disk access and NFS on windows does not appear to be

  support very well.

  I know that there are aware filesystems, clustered as VMFS etc. Is there a way to access it directly from my Windows VM or are there devices SAN which is directly accessible from the virtual Windows machine?

  Or maybe there are other solutions to set up a shared drive?

  I know that there are aware filesystems, clustered as VMFS etc. Is there a way to access it directly from my Windows VM or are there devices SAN which is directly accessible from the virtual Windows machine?

  VMFS is a really clustered file system and allow access of multiple virtual machine the same amount of storage (data store) which is different from that to create a virtual disk (hard) and present to multiple virtual machines. You can do this, BUT the guest virtual machine should take care of several accesses to the hard, for Windows, you must turn on the feature... without this clustering with failover data may be corrupted.

  I think the best and supported solution for you is to create another cluster with Failover Cluster functionality and create a resource sharing files with files that will access your NLB nodes.

• Single VMDK for multiple virtual machines in esx3.5?

  Hello

  Is it possible to use a single VMDK to host several VM in ESX3.5 or is this feature on the way?  I think the vmware view tech that allows you to host multiple virtual machines to a single image and store only the deltas for VMS replca.

  We organize several ts who are about 12 GB per image, and each server is essentially the same.  It would reduce the space if these could be consolidated at the level of vmware.

  Thank you very much.

  What you are referring to the notion of linked Clones, it's something completely different to share a single VMDK.  with linked clones, you actually run mulitple copies of a single Machine.  This fuinctionality is not available in ESX Raw but is a characteristic of Lab Manager and VMware View Premium.

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• Is it Possible to access only bypassed FC HBA to multiple virtual machines

  Hello

  I have a FC HBA on my 5.5 ESX. Server. It does not support the function of SR - IOV. Is it possible to access this FC HBA across multiple virtual machines?

  If possible, please provide as follows to go further.

  Kind regards

  Aashish

  It is not possible. The basic material underlying PCI specification does not have a single shared between several independent operating systems PCI device.

  SR - IOV solves by creating the virtual function peripheral PCI, but as you mentioned, that he can't stand not and first of all, ESXi supports that SR - IOV for Ethernet network devices and not for native FC HBA (excluded FCoE) functions.

• Help for a demo: create multiple virtual machines

  Hello

  I am a beginner in vCO, I completed the installation and configuration with success and I started to create workflows, but I guess that I need help with an example that I started yesterday:

  I am creating several virtual machines at the same time, I mean all the user have to do is say how VMs, he wants to be created and the workflow must do the rest, but I don't know what is the best way to do so, in the present workflow in the library , find us only 'create simple VM' so I added a few scriptable tasks to this workflow, but still can't do what I want.

  Any solution plese? or a few best practices to perform this type of workflow? Maybe I missed a workflow can create multiple virtual machines with different names but the same configuration.

  Thanks in advance,

  This can help out you.

• Stop/start multiple virtual machines with names created automatically

  Hi all

  in my test environment, I want to stop or start multiple virtual machines via the script.

  Their name is always like this:

  'vm-100-qa', 'vm-101-qa","vm-100-qa","vm-102-qa '...

  Now I would like to just stop every VM 'vm-140-QA' to 'vm-160-qa.

  I created a table "$a = 140.160", but I don't know how to implement this in a script 'Shutdown-VMGuest-comments '.... »

  Sorry for this stupid question. I am a beginner absolute powershell.

  Thank you very much in advance,

  Petrie

  You can do something like this

  140..160 | %{   Shutdown-VMGuest -VM "vm-$_-qa"}
  

• Deploy multiple virtual machines simultaneously

  Hello

  I'm trying to deploy multiple virtual machines at the same time using powercli.  I think I have has the switch - RunAsynch, howerver, this doesn't seem to work, instead of that virtual machines are deployed one at a time.  Here is my code:

  SE connect-VIServer-Server vc1. MYDOMAIN.local - user MYDOMAIN\MYACCOUNT-password MYPASSWORD

  New-vm - vmhost prodh1. MYDOMAIN.local - name of TEST - SVR01 - model W2K8R2SP1 - IOMEGA data store - OSCustomizationspec-W2K8R2SP1-_Tobedeleted location | Start-VM - RunAsync

  New-vm - vmhost prodh1. MYDOMAIN.local - name of TEST - SVR02 - W2K8R2SP1 - IOMEGA data store model - OSCustomizationspec-W2K8R2SP1-_Tobedeleted location | Start-VM - RunAsync

  New-vm - vmhost prodh1. MYDOMAIN.local - name of TEST - SVR03 - W2K8R2SP1 - IOMEGA data store model - OSCustomizationspec-W2K8R2SP1-_Tobedeleted location | Start-VM - RunAsync

  New-vm - vmhost prodh1. MYDOMAIN.local - name of TEST - SVR04 - W2K8R2SP1 - IOMEGA data store model - OSCustomizationspec-W2K8R2SP1-_Tobedeleted location | Start-VM - RunAsync

  Start-Sleep - seconds 300

  Get - vm "TEST-SVR01 | Get-VMGuestNetworkInterface Guestuser - administrator - GuestPassword "MYPASSWORD" |? {$_.name - eq "Connect to network Local 3"} | Game-vmguestnetworkinterface administrator - Guestuser - GuestPassword "MYPASSWORD" - IPPolicy - 192.168.1.25 static IP - Netmask 255.255.255.0 - Gateway 192.168.1.1 DNS - 192.168.1.2,192.168.1.3 - RunAsync

  Get - vm "TEST-SVR02 | Get-VMGuestNetworkInterface Guestuser - administrator - GuestPassword "MYPASSWORD" |? {$_.name - eq "Connect to network Local 3"} | Game-vmguestnetworkinterface administrator - Guestuser - GuestPassword "MYPASSWORD" - IPPolicy - 192.168.1.25 static IP - Netmask 255.255.255.0 - Gateway 192.168.1.1 DNS - 192.168.1.2,192.168.1.3 - RunAsync

  Get - vm "TEST-SVR03 | Get-VMGuestNetworkInterface Guestuser - administrator - GuestPassword "MYPASSWORD" |? {$_.name - eq "Connect to network Local 3"} | Game-vmguestnetworkinterface administrator - Guestuser - GuestPassword "MYPASSWORD" - IPPolicy - 192.168.1.25 static IP - Netmask 255.255.255.0 - Gateway 192.168.1.1 DNS - 192.168.1.2,192.168.1.3 - RunAsync

  Get - vm "TEST-SVR04 | Get-VMGuestNetworkInterface Guestuser - administrator - GuestPassword "MYPASSWORD" |? {$_.name - eq "Connect to network Local 3"} | Game-vmguestnetworkinterface administrator - Guestuser - GuestPassword "MYPASSWORD" - IPPolicy - 192.168.1.25 static IP - Netmask 255.255.255.0 - Gateway 192.168.1.1 DNS - 192.168.1.2,192.168.1.3 - RunAsync

  Get-NetworkAdapter "TEST-SVR01 | Together-NetworkAdapter - NetworkName VM1-confirm: $false

  Get-NetworkAdapter "TEST-SVR02 | Together-NetworkAdapter - NetworkName VM1-confirm: $false

  Get-NetworkAdapter "TEST-SVR03 | Together-NetworkAdapter - NetworkName VM1-confirm: $false

  Get-NetworkAdapter "TEST-SVR04 | Together-NetworkAdapter - NetworkName VM1-confirm: $false

  If anyone can help?

  Thank you

  Duncan.

  Yes, you are right.

  By specifying the param -VM (Get - VM $modelVM) , you create the new virtual machine from an existing one.

  Just change the cmdlet New - VM settings according to your needs and let the VM - far.

  It creates your virtual machines based on a template and specification of customization.

  $esxName = "prodh1.MYDOMAIN.local"
  $template = "W2K8R2SP1"
  $datastore = "IOMEGA"
  $newVmList = "TEST-SRV01", "TEST-SRV02", "TEST-SRV03", "TEST-SRV04"
  $custSpec = "W2K8R2SP1"
  $location = "_Tobedeleted"
  $taskTab = @{}
  
  # Create all the VMs specified in $newVmList
  foreach($Name in $newVmList) {
       $taskTab[(New-VM -Name $Name -VMHost (Get-VMHost -Name $esxName) -Template $template -Datastore $datastore -OSCustomizationSpec $custSpec -Location $location -RunAsync).Id] = $Name
  }
  

  Of course, you can write it as before. You will need to only change the $newVmList variable in the original script.

  foreach($Name in $newVmList) {
       $taskTab[(New-VM -Name $Name -VMHost "prodh1.MYDOMAIN.local" -Template" W2K8R2SP1" -Datastore" IOMEGA" -OSCustomizationSpec "W2K8R2SP1" -Location "_Tobedeleted" -RunAsync).Id] = $Name
  }
  

  You will also need to insert the remaining part with the while loop and the customizations in your network!

  http://www.lucd.info/2010/02/21/about-async-tasks-the-get-task-cmdlet-and-a-hash-table/

  Concerning

  Emanuel

• How can I transfer a file from the operating system to a backup of the production running VM virtual machine?

  Problem:  After I do a backup one using ghettoVCB on a local VMFS volume, I have a virtual machine that I can start something happened to that running.  However, sometimes I just need a file from the OS level, which means that I would need to start to get them, but then I have an IP address conflict.  I can't imagine a way to have the NICs turned off and still be able to move the file.  If I change the IP addresses, the software that I need to create the file that I need to transfer no longer works because, although there no need of constant connectivity to the seller, it is locked to the public IP address.

  Material:  I have two 4 ESXi hosts to work, each with local VMFS volumes.  They share a private vlan common and a vlan common public.  They each ssh, ftp, wput, wget, and rsync available.  I have a Windows 2003 Server VM which also hosts a NFS and the VI client and other VMWare tools.  It also has private and public interfaces as do virtual machines that would be to make and receive the OS files.

  Question:  How can I transfer a file from the operating system to a backup of the production running VM virtual machine?

  Thank you!

  Yes Mr President, make sure you set the network on this virtual machine to be connected to the 'Internal' vswitch, you set up before turning the power on to the virtual machine.

  -